TENS and Heat for Reducing Back Pain in Humans

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Pain

In brief

Lower back pain is one of the most common and most expensive impairments costing time and expense in the work force today. With the effects on cognitive skills and addictive side effects of opioids and other prescription pain killers, there has been increasing interest in alternative medical treatments to relieve pain. Two of these that are commonly used are heat and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). In the present investigation, there are two objectives 1) to determine if Tens needs to be continuous or can be intermittent and still achieve pain relief and 2) To see how long pain relief lasts after 4 hours of application of tens, heat or both. There will be seventy-five subjects with chronic back pain divided into 6 groups randomly; 15 subjects per group. The intervention will be either TENS alone, Heat alone or Tens plus heat or a control group.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03740750

Run by

Future Sciene Technology

People needed

90

Starts

2018-10-15

Expected to finish

2018-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-11-14

Who can join

Age: 24 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• pain for at least 3 months in the lower back
• age range 24-60

You may not qualify if…

• Those with back pain caused by fractures or spinal damage
• those who had undergone low back surgery within the last year
• those with diagnosed diabetes
• no use of opiod pain meds for at least 10 days

Where it is running

• Future Sciecne Technology — Henderson, Nevada, United States (enrolling)

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